Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-11-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

n tANhiOhobia'ioh W JSN~
speaks in all languages, and with a
force that tongue or pen can never
command. - Western Plowman.
"A preacher was complaining Of
the listlessness and inattention of his
congregation, when an old deacon
spoke up and said: Hungry sheep
will look up to the rack if hay is in it"
Richmond Religious Herald
The school teacher at Osceola, w.
T., is q young woman of only eighteen
years, but she has no difficulty in
keeping order, for she threatens to
sit down on the first pupil who is in
subordinate. She weighs 1926 pounds.
Mr.. George W. Cable, the writer
on Southern topics, who has been SO
successful teacher of Bible studies at
Northampton, is now to conduct DR..
Meredith's Saturday afternoon class in
fremont Temple, Boston. - United
Presbyterian.
On the 18th of July, 1914, in
southampton, Eng, was born Isaac
Watts, the father, 1.-THE inventor Of
hymns in the English language. :"
Though he wrote less than seven hun
dred sacred songs, yet at this moment
about two-t -tifths of every church collec-
ton of hymns are of his composing.
Lord, do thou choose for me. not
only the Whose state and condi ion of
being, but every little and great acci-
dent of it. Keep me safe by Thy grace,
and then use what instrument Thou
pleaseth for bringing me to Thee.
Lord, am not solicitous of the pas
sage, so may get to Thee. Bishop
Jeremy Taylor.
Prof Lucy M. Salmon, the new oc-
cupant of the Chair of History at Vas
sar College. began her career as al
educator in Iowa, She went there
eleven years ago young alumnus o.
the University of Michigan, and fol
six years was principal of the Me
Gregor public schools Thence sh'
went to be Professor of English His
tory in the State Normal School a
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Galveston Neaos pays this
tribute to the late Bishop X. W. b
Elliott: HE came to wildern s
with scarcely q consecrated church il
his jurisdiction. Now nearly ever,
town and village has its worshipin!
congregations assembling in thei
cross-crowned temples. Each thre
months, on an average, of his admin
istration he erected some church build
ing or school-the direct outcome O
his individual labor"
The proper method of dealing wit
the Bible is to accept it in the aggre
gate as of Divine authority, to attac
this authority to each portion of tn
Bible, to read and study the book III
der this impression, and then devort'
regulate our lives by the rules which
supplies. The man who does this wi
feel the power of the book as an al
thority to govern his faith and pra'
tice. and will rejoice in the comfort
and hopes which it affords, as he otl
erwise can not do. Independent.
The board of directors of Ii
University of Southern California hay
under consideration plan for the e.
tablishment of banks in connectio
with each of the branches of the un
versity, these institutions to do bus
ness upon capital furnished by the Sc
eral endowment funds, and thus
provide for the colleges constal
and nevor-failing source of revenue al
form, at the same time perfectly sa
and legitimate source for the inves
ment of those funds. In this way it
proposed to eventually establish III
versity bank of San Diego, a unive
sity bank of Ontario, of Escondido,
Ramona, of Tulare, of San Fernand
and of every town wherein a bran'
of the great and growing university
located.